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UNITED STATES GEORGE RUGER, OF LA FAYETTE CITY, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOXES FOR CANDIES, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,431, dated June 4,1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Boxes for Candies,Cigars, Cigarettes, &c., invented by GEORGE RUGER, of La Fayette city,in the county of Tippecanoe and State'of Indiana.

'forming a complete box without the necessity of employing any paste ormucilage to fasten the various parts together, thereby effecting a greatsaving in time and labor in manufacturing the same.

In carrying out my invention, I take a sheet of paper, card, or othersuitable substance, and punch, out, or otherwise form it to the desiredshape, hereafter more fully shown and described. The sheet of paper,card, or other suitable substance, is then folded or bent into thedesired form, and retained in that form by a rivet, eyelet, or othersimilar means; but that the nature of my invention may be fullyunderstood, I will proceed to describe the same more in detail by aid ofthe accompanying drawin g.

Description of the Drawing.

Figure 1 represents a sheet of paper, card, or other similar substance,A, cut, punched, or otherwise formed into the desired shape for theformation of a box, the dotted lines representing the form of the sheetA before being cut, punched, or shaped. Fig. 2 represents an end view inperspective of the box complete. Figs. 3 and 4 represent sections of thesame.

0n reference to Fig. 1, it will be seen that the sheet A is so shapedthat the part a shall form the bottom of the box, the part b the front,and c the back, while the parts d, (Z

and 01 form the cover or top of the same.

a a represent the portions which form the ends of the box over which theparts b and e and b and c are respectively lapped or folded, and thewhole is retained in position as shown by a rivet, e, or it may be by aneyelet or other similar fastening. The part fis so formed that when thesheet A is folded or bent into the form of a box, as shown in Figs. 2.3, and 4, it will serve as a guard to prevent any portion of thecontents of the box accidentally falling or dropping out or beingextracted without the box beingopened.

Fig. 5 represents another sheet, A, punched, out, or otherwise formedinto a slightly different shape to that shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 shows anend view in perspective of a box formed from a sheet, such asrepresented in Fig. 5. v

In each of these views the same letters are employed to indicatecorresponding parts to those represented in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, sothat it is not necessary further to describe the same. It will, however,be seen that the parts d and d in this arrangement are of a squareinstead of an angulart'orm, as in the previous arrangement.

Having thus described my invention, 1 would have it understood that I donot claim the principle of forming the various parts of boxes from asingle sheet of paper, card, or other similar

